Council postpones pseudoephedrine vote

11:01 PM,
Aug. 26, 2013

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In a surprise vote, Springfield City Council voted to postpone a controversial measure that would have required a prescription for a popular cold and sinus medicine that is also used as the main ingredient in locally manufactured meth.

Police Chief Paul Williams, who was confident that measure would pass moments earlier, described his frustration that the proposal would now be postponed until June 2014, at the earliest.

"We will be in the same position in a year that we are today," Williams said. "A year from now we should be talking about how we don't have any meth labs and how we live in a safer ...